If you haven’t read part 1 yet, check it out…. In part two, I setup Home Assistant so that I can make configuration changes. I did this through the HASS Configurator add-on. I could edit these settings via the configuration.yaml file with a text editor, but I wanted to do as much as possible through…

As a tech enthusiast, I have grand plans to make my life better with the help of technology. That’s a very broad statement, and here I’ll be describing my foray into the world of Home Assistant. Or more specifically, Hass.io. The website home-assistant.io describes the software like this – “Home Assistant is an open-source home…

No, I do not want to be hacked. Let me repeat – I do not want to be hacked. Am I a hacker? Not so much. You may be wondering “if you aren’t a hacker, and you don’t want to be hacked, then what exactly IS HackTom? HackTom is a place that I can talk…